Developments

Since the XP era, I've been using the Microsoft SyncToy tool to do all my backups, and for the most part it's been doing a damn good job of keeping everything duplicated, over the many different harddrives/NAS's that I've gradually destroyed through the years.
A few days ago, however, it started behaving very oddly, and I'm not really sure why.

I have a feeling that it's due to Monkey's use of Build folders, and the fact that each game I've written over the past 3 years has included about 5 or 6 copies of itself, due to all the different targets available.
And since these folders also include things like C++ and Android folder duplication stuff, there's a fuckton of duplications, and hundreds and thousands of teensy tiny teeny weeny files, all over the hard drive.

SyncToy was getting slower and slower, and slower, until a few days ago when it stopped doing it's job altogether.
Hmmm..
I've since "hidden" all the .build folders, which means SyncToy now ignores those, and after a lot (a LOT) of shuffling files about, I finally got things back up and running the way they're supposed to.

..
Except, there were a few casualties along the way.
Unexpectedly, SyncToy decided that the OLDER versions of some files were better than the NEWER versions, and undid a number of things I'd done.
Which would usually not be an issue, except that I'm currently working away at BetaCollexion, and days worth of file-undoing amounts to literally numbers of games..
The code was still there, thankfully, but all the artwork for about 3 games was inexplicably gone. And I couldn't find it anywhere..

As a result, I spent about 3 hours yesterday, having to redraw a ton of sprites. Ugh..
I'm pretty sure I've reconstructed all the important stuff, but I'm going to have to have a proper playthrough to be sure.

Stupid backups..

I've said it before and I'll say it again.. Always backup.. And importantly, backup your backups, because.. shit happens..

MusicAL

After all that backup trouble, I decided to tackle something else, instead, and this was the result.

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Daily Doodle : Cordless Sucks

Platdude bought one of those fancy Cordless vacuums, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to last more than about 10 minutes before he has to recharge the thing again.
Pretty sure that wasn't the point of them.

Maybe it's broken?

Mailbag : Empty

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